Mayor Ed Engler said that the Planning Board is within its rights to prepare the Master Plan, but it should "prepare a Master Plan the council will buy into and support." He said that the council "never bought into the last Master Plan," little of which has been implemented. The council, he said, should be "brought into the Master Plan process though we acknowledge that the law does not require that." In particular, he stressed that if the Master Plan recommends changes to zoning or expenditures of funds, neither can be undertaken without the approval of the council. The City Council has appropriated at least $18,850 to prepare the Master Plan, some of which has been spent.

Source: Daily Sun November 11, 2016 07:48 UTC